ilex

See also: Ilex

English
An ilex.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).

Noun

ilex (plural ilexes or ilices)

  1. Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10:
      Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex—many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground […]
  2. Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.

See also

Anagrams

Latin
the holly-like foliage of ilex
(Quercus ilex)

Etymology

Probably from a lost non-Indo-European language.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.leks/, [ˈiː.ɫɛks]

Noun

īlex f (genitive īlicis); third declension

  1. holm oak (Quercus ilex)

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īlex īlicēs
Genitive īlicis īlicum
Dative īlicī īlicibus
Accusative īlicem īlicēs
Ablative īlice īlicibus
Vocative īlex īlicēs

Derived terms
  • īlignum

Descendants

References
  • ilex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ilex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ilex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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